Requirements for Building the Source Code

Open the following solution to run the tests and browse the source code:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Project.Tests.sln

Nested Project Sample

Unit tests

Integration Tests

Referencing the Visual Studio Managed Package Framework for Projects

Note that there is no project for building an assembly that can be referenced. Instead, you should import the the MPF project sources directly into your project in order to build them. This can be done by importing the ProjectBase.files MSBuild file into
your C# project. Please see NestedProject.csproj and CustomProject.csproj for examples of how to do this.

Samples

There are two sample projects that use the library included with the source code.

CustomProject - a simple project system

NestedProject - a project system that supports nesting.

How to run the tests

The tests can be found in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Project.Tests.sln and can be executed through Microsoft.VisualStudio.Project.Tests.vsmdi.
There are two type of tests:

Unit tests using mock/fake objects

Integration tests. These tests create a Nested project type and execute the tests on the nested project.

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